RoyalDude wrote:Au contraire my friend, I've just don't share the same blissful ignorance with this group that you do, If you want me to get out the Pom poms like Arachnid, well that just ain't gonna happen.

That being said, it's a new season now and anything can happen. However, what concerns me more is not so much the Canucks but how good and fast the Sharks looked last night. They are miles faster without Murray, Clowe and Handzus in the lineup. Speed kills

Don't require any pom-poms or unreasoned clearleading. I simply find the tone of your posts excessively negative and you are always in the fray when something goes wrong and almost never when things go right; and when you are, you still have a complaint against something. You remind me of a farmer who can always find something wrong with the weather.

Now having said this, I do agree with your assessment that a faster Sharks team is a dangerous Sharks team. We got out worked at key times. If we want to win the next game, that needs to change.

cheer up chief, eventually the porridge will be the right temperature even for you

RoyalDude wrote:We are 2 and 9 in our last 11 playoff games and just a measly 13 goals for in those 11 games. This problem isn't new, something Gillis refuses to address.

Refuses to address? I’m not sure I agree with that.

Gillis has recently brought in 30 goal scorer David Booth, 16 goal scorer defenceman Jason Garrison and perennial 60+ point guy Derek Roy. He also brought in Chris Higgins, who was an upgrade on the 3rd line at the time. Sure, the results are mixed at this early juncture of these playoffs in terms of some of the players added, but certainly attempts have been made. As you point out, there is a trend going back the last several playoff games where the offense has dried up, but this isn’t a case of Brian Burke refusing to upgrade in goal and instead leaving us with Dan the Man.

The mystery I’m trying to solve is why has the offensive production of the Sedins, Burrows, Kesler and to a lesser extent Raymond dropped so much?

Until last night I was in the camp that said split Kesler and Roy and have three good lines rolling. Well, that didn't happen and it is clear we need the scoring threat Kesler and Roy combined can bring. Call me stupid but didn't Raymond JS and Hansen form a decent line this year? Isn't that when Raymond was playing his best and often looked dangerous?

Ya get JS back in if he is healthy. Enough of Ebbett.

No way we get to use injuries or illness this year. Hog shit I say just hog shit.

Hockey Widow wrote:Until last night I was in the camp that said split Kesler and Roy and have three good lines rolling. Well, that didn't happen and it is clear we need the scoring threat Kesler and Roy combined can bring. Call me stupid but didn't Raymond JS and Hansen form a decent line this year? Isn't that when Raymond was playing his best and often looked dangerous?

Ya get JS back in if he is healthy. Enough of Ebbett.

No way we get to use injuries or illness this year. Hog shit I say just hog shit.

I'd say game two is our first real must win this season.

Just replace Ebbett with Pinizzotto or Sestito, at the very least, they can hit. Ebbett does not bring enough offense to take up one of the 4th line spots.

I hope it works, but I don't get it. Lineup decisions have been odd for years now, so I'm not surprised, but I just don't get it.

We have had bad centre depth all year. Sharks are very deep at centre, so let's put two centres on one line?? Kesler is a Selke trophy winning centre and the straw that stirs our proverbial drink...so we'll move him to wing where he has barely played? Sedins and Burrows haven't worked all year, so yeah, let's keep that line together. Kassian was one of our most effective players in Game 1, give him less minutes. Ebbett has been useless all year, so keep playing him. Lapierre hasn't been effective in a third line role in nearly two years...so we'll keep trying.

I hope it works, but I don't get it. Lineup decisions have been odd for years now, so I'm not surprised, but I just don't get it.

We have had bad centre depth all year. Sharks are very deep at centre, so let's put two centres on one line?? Kesler is a Selke trophy winning centre and the straw that stirs our proverbial drink...so we'll move him to wing where he has barely played? Sedins and Burrows haven't worked all year, so yeah, let's keep that line together. Kassian was one of our most effective players in Game 1, give him less minutes. Ebbett has been useless all year, so keep playing him. Lapierre hasn't been effective in a third line role in nearly two years...so we'll keep trying.

Maddening ain't it?

If I didn't know for a fact Canucks are going to win the Cup, twould drive me mad as well.